"Trump Businesses Reportedly Benefit From Deregulatory Actions"
"President Trump could stand to personally profit from the regulations he’s rolling back, according to a new report Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 10/13/2017
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Louisiana’s Sinking Parishes Sue Fossil Fuel Firms Over Climate Damage
"Several Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties in other states—have filed lawsuits alleging hundreds of fossil fuel companies violated their coastal use permits by failing to clean up pollution and by failing to restore the marsh wetlands to their original condition. The suits seek to recover “damages, restoration costs and actual restoration.”"
Source: Climate Liability News, 10/11/2017
"The Marsh at the End of the World"
"Wetlands are some of the world’s greatest carbon sinks, and they're starting to rot: from Maine, an investigation of an ecosystem on the brink."
Source: Guernica, 09/19/2017
"Fierce Storms Haven't Slowed Growth Along US Coastlines"
"Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new Associated Press analysis shows. The latest punishing hurricanes scored bull's-eyes on two of the country's fastest growing regions: coastal Texas around Houston and resort areas of southwest Florida."
Source: AP, 09/18/2017
Menominee Tribe Seeks Stricter Federal Oversight In Michigan Mine Fight
"The fate of a mine near headwaters of a sacred river hinges on a wetlands permit; the tribe wants tougher federal standards to apply—not looser state ones."
Source: EHN, 08/25/2017
Clean Water Rule: Pruitt Stars In Industry Video Promoting WOTUS Repeal
"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt appears in an agribusiness video urging farmers and ranchers to comment on the proposed repeal of the Obama-era Clean Water Rule, promoting the rollback of a regulation that he sued to stop as Oklahoma attorney general."
Source: Greenwire, 08/22/2017
"Wildlife: Senate Panel OKs Conservation Package"
"The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee [Wednesday] quickly approved a conservation package whose potential reach extends from the Chesapeake Bay and Western state wetlands to hunters and anglers everywhere."
Source: Greenwire, 07/27/2017
"Clean Water Rule: Trump Analysis Slashes WOTUS's Economic Benefits"
"U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are disputing their own economic analysis of the 2015 Clean Water Rule, now saying most benefits they previously ascribed to the Obama-era regulation can no longer be quantified."
Source: Greenwire, 07/10/2017
"E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation"
"The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major legal step toward repealing a bitterly contested Obama-era regulation designed to limit pollution in about 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water."
Source: NY Times, 06/28/2017
"Why the World’s Rivers Are Losing Sediment and Why It Matters"
"Vast amounts of river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s large dams, depriving areas downstream of material that is badly needed to build up the marshes and wetlands that act as a buffer against rising seas."
"In September 2011, after 20 years of planning, workers began dismantling the Elwha and Glines dams on the Elwha River in northwestern Washington state. At the time, it was the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, and it took nearly three years for both barriers to be dismantled and for the river to once again flow freely.
Source: YaleE360, 06/27/2017
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